During his “Meet The Press” interview yesterday, President Obama said that the United States would begin providing military support to the effort to control the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which Bryan Fischer cited on his radio program today in order to argue that people with HIV should be quarantined as a public health measure.
Claiming that if both Ebola and HIV are spread through the exchange of bodily fluids, then the same steps should be taken to protect the public in both cases, Fischer asserted that “this is how liberals will always betray, when they don’t realize what they’re doing, they will betray the reality that they are fundamentally conservative at the core.”
“Here’s President Obama saying when you’ve got a public health crisis that is caused by a virus that is transmitted through the exchange of bodily fluids, what do you do?” Fischer asked. “You quarantine it! You even use military assets, if needed, to quarantine the people who have that virus so they cannot transmit it and spread it among the rest of the population”:
